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While renewables are now cheaper than ever, political barriers and pressure from fossil fuel companies hinder global climate efforts, Bill Hare tells Anadolu.

Niger is taking a new step in consolidating its climate commitments. Climate Analytics Africa is hosting a consultation and training workshop dedicated to assessing the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) 2.0 and developing the roadmap towards NDC 3.0, with the assistance of a national consultant.

“The NCQG commitments fall far short of the financing needed. Developed countries have refused to cooperate and instead have been spouting nonsense about the urgency of the situation. The so-called roadmap by the COP29 Presidency to reach $1.3 trillion per year by 2035 is still vague and there is no clear path to get there,” Thomas Houlie said.

On Friday 22 Nov at COP29, Bill Hare told AP "no one's ever totally happy with the text. But the differences are so big they’ll have to be bridged before you have any chance of agreement here.”

Just like last year’s initial proposal, which was soundly rejected, this plan is “empty” on what climate analysts call “mitigation” or efforts to reduce emissions from or completely get off coal, oil and natural gas, Bill Hare told PBS.

"The timelines for these disasters are getting shorter," Jattansingh said. "You have a cycle of rebuilding, reconstruction, long-term recovery and so on — all for another event to happen."

“Colombia is doing the right thing in a way by saying we need to move away from fossil fuels,” said Bill Hare. But the whole ecosystem of the international financial community is not backing Colombia up, he said

“We have seen that the $100 billion goal was not sufficient", Dr Fahad Saeed told Al Jazeera. "Not only the amount but also the quality of the support that was provided.”

“It's a game with high stakes,” Bill Hare told The Telegraph. “Right now the fate of the planet depends very much on what we're able to pull off in the next five or 10 years.”